Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Let’s demote this “crumb bum”
and remove his statue from the steps of Philadelphia’s Municipal Services Building.
Frank Rizzo’s legacy of racial divisiveness and thuggery is no longer one that
Philly should endorse. Like an effigy of an authoritarian dictator, the statue
looms over our provincial politics and is a symbol of our dysfunction. Move him
somewhere less prominent and let’s reserve our high profile public spaces for
memorials of figures that all Philadelphians can be proud of.